Front End Development Jobs in Scotland

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 140 143
Rank change year-on-year +49 +3 -72
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 77 146 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.62% 2.18% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.36% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18 87 53
10th Percentile £38,125 £34,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £44,063 £44,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £70,975 - £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,723 6,177 4,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.81% 92.44% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,398 2,191
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,055
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% +5.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,798 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Scotland

Front End Development
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Scotland.

Salary trend for Front End Development in Scotland

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in Scotland

Front End Development
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 2
Glasgow +127 14 £52,500 +5.00% 14
Edinburgh -5 12 £57,750 -3.75% 10
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 6
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
Dundee +8 2 £52,500 +5.00%
West Lothian +6 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen +2 1 £65,000 +23.81%
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (63.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.30%) Notion
1 1 (1.30%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 59 (76.62%) AWS
2 57 (74.03%) Azure
3 52 (67.53%) GCP
4 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.90%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (3.90%) GitHub
4 3 (3.90%) SaaS
5 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.30%) Figma
6 1 (1.30%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (64.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.79%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.79%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.90%) MySQL
3 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (67.53%) Maven
2 51 (66.23%) GitLab
3 49 (63.64%) Bitbucket
3 49 (63.64%) Cucumber
3 49 (63.64%) JIRA
3 49 (63.64%) Selenium
3 49 (63.64%) SonarQube
3 49 (63.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (6.49%) Git
4 5 (6.49%) JUnit
5 3 (3.90%) Gradle
5 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.60%) Mockito
7 1 (1.30%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.30%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.30%) Mocha
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 57 (74.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 52 (67.53%) Finance
3 49 (63.64%) Banking
4 4 (5.19%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Back Office
6 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (67.53%) Software Engineer
2 24 (31.17%) Developer
3 12 (15.58%) Senior
4 11 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (11.69%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior Web Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Web Developer
9 2 (2.60%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) C# Software Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Senior C# Software Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (88.31%) React
2 64 (83.12%) CSS
3 58 (75.32%) HTML
4 56 (72.73%) Spring
5 52 (67.53%) Hibernate
5 52 (67.53%) JPA
5 52 (67.53%) Spring Boot
6 51 (66.23%) Kafka
7 50 (64.94%) Redux
8 8 (10.39%) RESTful
9 7 (9.09%) AngularJS
10 5 (6.49%) REST
11 4 (5.19%) .NET
12 3 (3.90%) .NET Core
12 3 (3.90%) Next.js
12 3 (3.90%) React Native
13 2 (2.60%) Blazor
13 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
13 2 (2.60%) JWT
13 2 (2.60%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (64.94%) Enterprise Software
2 49 (63.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Linux
1 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (80.52%) Agile
2 60 (77.92%) CI/CD
3 59 (76.62%) Microservices
4 58 (75.32%) DevOps
4 58 (75.32%) Software Engineering
5 55 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 54 (70.13%) Containerisation
6 54 (70.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (67.53%) Clean Code
7 52 (67.53%) SDLC
8 51 (66.23%) Performance Optimisation
9 50 (64.94%) Test Automation
10 49 (63.64%) TDD
11 9 (11.69%) User Experience
12 5 (6.49%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (6.49%) Unit Testing
12 5 (6.49%) Web Development
13 4 (5.19%) Deployment Automation
13 4 (5.19%) Micro Frontends
13 4 (5.19%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (83.12%) JavaScript
2 58 (75.32%) Java
3 55 (71.43%) SQL
4 13 (16.88%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.19%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) C
6 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.30%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (70.13%) QA
System Software
1 56 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (76.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.90%) Grafana
3 1 (1.30%) Ansible
3 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (63.64%) Solace
2 3 (3.90%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.90%) Splunk
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe
3 1 (1.30%) Google
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle